American Astronomical Society

About This Association

The American Astronomical Society (AAS) was established in 1899 through the efforts of solar astronomer George Ellery Hale, who also created The Astrophysical Journal and built the Yerkes Observatory, and Simon Newcomb, an astronomer, applied mathematician and autodidactic polymath, who was then seen as America’s pre-eminent astronomer. At the time, there was great pressure to specialize the sciences in America, and Hale and Newcomb set about to organize American astronomy and to redefine it by centering as much of it as possible within the realm of physics.

Publications

Conventions

Annual

Specialties:

1. Technology

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